After the Nation?: Critical Reflections on Nationalism and by Shane O'Neill, Keith Breen

Explores the ways that the countryside and nationalism are challenged by means of modern realities. This quantity addresses changes to our realizing of nationwide sovereignty, difficulties posed via violent clash among rival nationwide tasks, the feasibility of postnationalist democracy and citizenship, and the controversy over international justice.

The Post-Soviet Wars is a comparative account of the prepared violence within the Caucusus zone, 4 key parts: Chechnya, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, and Dagestan. Zürcher's aim is to appreciate the starting place and nature of the violence in those areas, the reaction and suppression from the post-Soviet regime and the ensuing results, all with a watch towards knowing why a few conflicts became violent, while others no longer.

All of us have passports: we belong to a kingdom. but the nationalism that has created international locations is an ambiguous phenomenon that has introduced self-determination to a few humans and persecution and dying to others. whilst is nationalism ethically applicable? In superbly easy language, Gregory Baum discusses the writings of 4 males whose nationalism used to be formed by way of their faith and their time: Martin Buber's speeches on Zionism sooner than the production of Israel; Mahatma Gandhi's influential incitement to peaceable resistance opposed to British imperialism; Paul Tillich's e-book on socialism and nationalism which was once banned by means of the Nazis; and Jacques Grand'Maison's defence of Quebecois nationalism within the wake of the province's Quiet Revolution.

In Mexico, as in different places, the nationwide area, that community of areas the place the folk engage with country associations, is consistently altering. the way it does so, the way it develops, is a ancient process-a technique that Claudio Lomnitz exposes, explores, and theorizes during this ebook, which develops a different view of the cultural politics of nation-making in Mexico.

It's been twenty years due to the fact Yugoslavia fell aside. The brutal conflicts that its dissolution are over, however the legacy of the tragedy keeps to unsettle the zone. Reconciliation is an extended and tough technique that necessitates a willingness to interact overtly and objectively in confronting the previous.

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I have argued elsewhere that it is most important not to confuse a millenarian and symbolic cultural attachment to a territory with the very modern doctrine of undivided and exclusive sovereignty over the state (Nimni, 2005). 4 Political Zionism and ethnosymbolism Perhaps the explanation of ethnosymbolism’s paradoxical emphasis on the nation-state lies elsewhere – in the affinities between ethnosymbolism 30 After the Nation? and political Zionism. Throughout the prolific and illuminating work of Anthony Smith, the Zionist interpretation of Jewish history and its modern territorial nationalist movement (political Zionism) offers an important source of inspiration.

From the perspective of students of nationalism, the most puzzling dimension of this expansion is that it is taking place mostly among cultural communities that have no possibility, or indeed desire, to build separate nation-states. Of course, we can identify a diminishing number of nationalist movements that steadfastly persist in the aim of building separate states (for example, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict) where intractable bloody conflicts fester without the prospect of resolution. But in other, increasingly frequent, cases ethnonational communities exercise self-determination without constituting separate Ephraim Nimni 23 states, instead using mechanisms of devolution or national accommodation.